Peru Chiclayo Mission 9/2013-9/2015

Monday, January 5, 2015

A ton of smoke it was even hard to breath!

So its been a little while since ive been able to talk to everyone! Hows
everyone been?? Ive been great during these Holiday seasons!

So the work has been going pretty slow and has been hard for us
right now because nobody has had time to visit with us! But thats alright
because it should start to pick up a little bit now!

So our Christmas went pretty well! The 24th we went home at 9 and a member
brought us some Pollo a la Brasa which was pretty good! Then we kind of just
waited for the night and at midnight we came downstairs and we ate another dinner
with the Pensions family! We had the usual Panneton
and the Hot Chocolate and it was yummy! Then we went to bed and the next day for
us was P-day and so we woke up a little bit later than normal (president said we
could! :) )and after breakfast we opened up the little gifts that we had. The best part though was skyping with the family
after 7 months!? It was really nice to see everyone and talk with
everyone!!

Then for New Years the schedule was about the same but this time we had to
come back to the room at 8 because sometimes it get really dangerous on New
Years because eveyone does crazy things and a bunch of people are drinking the
whole time!? So we came back and 8 and we ate dinner then and then we just
waited and cleaned up the room and did just whatever until it was like 11:45 PM
and then we climbed up on top of our roof and we had a pretty unobstructed view
of everything and all the fireworks!! By 11:45 there were a ton of fireworks
going off and they just became more and more until it was 12 and then at 12
everyone lit their Muñecos on fire and it was so loud and there were soooo many
fireworks and there was a ton of smoke too it got a little harder to breath!
That was my last New Years and Christmas here in Peru and im definatley going to
miss the New Years celebration here because its just so insane!!! It was all
really fun!!

Anyways so during these last couple of weeks we havent really had much
success in the work but were still trying to work with the people! We dont
really have very many investigators that are progressing and not very many
people in the ward are helping us so everyhting kind of just slowed down...
Blanca hasnt come to church for the past couple of weeks which has been a
bummer!! All of the people just kept telling us that they would come to church
and everything but then they never ended up coming so yeah it hasnt been the
greatest lately and it has made it really hard for us lately!! On top of that
there have been a lot of drunk people in the streets lately and since were both
gringos walking around they always like to come up to us and start talking to us
and its really annoying sometimes... One time this drunk guy came up to us and
started to talk to us for like 10 minutes and at the end he pulled us in to a
group hug and he said a prayer with us and it was really wierd and
uncomfortable!?!

Anyways so these past couple have weeks have gone pretty well and my
copmanion is doing alright! It always hard the beginning of the mission and hes
hanging in there still! Its hard for him so far because of the spanish barrier
but he´ll get the hang up of it little by little! He is really cool and is able to express his love and kindness freely and openly and hes a very sincere person too!

Anyways that about all for now!! Love all of you guys!! I know that God
gives us trials to make us stronger to develop us into the person he needs us to
be and the person that we will need to be to succeed in the future! In a way im
grateful for the trials that i have because they make me who i am!!

Love,

Elder Jarman

Caroling in the town center

Ran into my first area pensionista and she gave this cool little pillow.